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Bodegón con frutas

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Bodegón con frutas

Willem van Aelst

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Willem van Aelst

Willem van Aelst, was a Dutch Baroque painter specialised in still life painting. He trained with his uncle, fellow still life painter Evert van Aelst.

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Willem van Aelst executed still lifes with flowers, dead game, weapons, foodstuffs and table items. His compositions changed little over the course of his career and are characterised by plain, dark backgrounds against which the various elements are outlined, and the use of veined marble tabletops or rich textiles, particularly velvet. Van Aelst also tended to locate the vases and other principal elements at the extreme front edge of the tabletops.

Van Aelst here includes two materials, glass and metal, which he was particularly skilled in depicting, revealing his technical merits and pleasure in interpreting the striking effects of light on these surfaces. The inclusion of birds was one of Van Aelst’s innovations in his still lifes. The present canvas is a good example of the Dutch interest in the cultivation of citrus fruit, which was not particularly suited to the climate of the Low Countries.

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Technique

High resolution pigment ink on cotton paper


Format

26.5 x 20.5 in

Same size as original


Edition What is a Neoseries?

Next unit for sale No. 2

Open edition. Produced on demand

Certificate of authenticity included


Provenance


20.5 in

26.5 un


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